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50 Cards in this Set
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Obdurate
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stubborn
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Obsequious
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servile, slavish
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Obviate
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make unnecessary, get rid of
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Occulde
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shut, close
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Officious
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meddlesome, excessively pushy in offering one's services
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Onerous
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burdensome
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Opprobrium
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infame, vilification
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Oscillate
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vibrate, waver
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Onstentatious
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showy, pretentious
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Paragon
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model of perfection
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Partisan
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one-sided, prejudiced, committed to a party
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Pathological
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pertaining to disease
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Pedantic
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bookish
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Penchant
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strong inclination, liking
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Penury
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severe poverty, stinginess
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Perennial
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somthing long lasting
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perfidious
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disloyal, trecherous
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Perfunctory
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superficial
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Permeable
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penetrable, porous, allowing liquids or gas to pass through
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Pervasive
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spread throughout
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Phlegmatic
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calm, not easily disturbed
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Piety
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devoutness
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Placate
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pacify, conciliate
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Plasticity
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ability to be molded
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Platitude
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trite remark, common place statement
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Plethora
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excess, overabundance
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Plummet
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fall sharply
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Porous
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full of pores, like a sieve
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Pragmatic
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practical
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Preamble
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introductory statement
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Precarious
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risky, uncertain
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Precipitate
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rash, hasty, sudden
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Precursor
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forerunner
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Presumptous
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arrogant, taking liberties
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Prevaricate
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lie
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Pristine
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unspoiled, charactertistic of earlier times, primitive
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Probity
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uprightness, incorruptibility
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Problematic
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doubtful, unsettled, questionable
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Prodigal
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wasteful, reckless with money
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Profound
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deep, not superficial, complete
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Prohibitive
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tending to prevent, inclined to prevent or forbid
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Prolifirate
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spread, multiply
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Propensity
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Natural inclination
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Propitiate
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appease
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Propriety
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fitness, correct conduct
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Proscribe
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banish, outlaw
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Pungent
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stinging
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Qualified
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limited, restricted
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Quibble
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objection, complaint
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Quiscent
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at rest, temporarily incative
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